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Joe Flower

Joe Flower is a speaker, consultant and futurist based in Sausalito, Calif. He is also a member of Speakers Express, author of How to Get What We Pay For: A Handbook for Healthcare Revolutionaries, and regular contributor to H&HN Daily.
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How to Improve Productivity

Where's the bin marked 'Productivity'? Where's the lever marked 'More'?
November 1, 2016
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Health care organizations must produce the value people need at a cost they can afford, Joe Flower says.
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How to Be a Better Futurist, and Why It Matters to Health Care

Hone your crystal ball–gazing skills to better forecast health care trends
May 23, 2016
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Health care leaders can adopt the tools used by futurists or risk becoming irrelevant, says futurist Joe Flower.
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A Four-Dimensional Strategy for Thriving in Value-based Reimbursement

Follow this primer for tactical decision-making in times of significant change.
January 19, 2016
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Making a living under a value regime requires a robust analysis of which strategies will work best for you, in what order and with what investment. 


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'Winning' by Defeating the Triple Aim

Successful strategies will be the ones that thrive despite high variance, multiple energy inputs and many strategic options.
November 16, 2015
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In health care, we are near the end of the first act of whatever you want to call this vast change we are going through. 


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Does Prevention Save Money for Hospitals?

Not the way we do it now. But smart prevention has proven its value — and cuts costs.
September 14, 2015
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Not the way we do it now. But smart prevention has proven its value — and cuts costs.
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How to Strategize in the New Era of Health Care

When even the nature of change is changing, you need a flexible process and a paradoxical mind.
July 14, 2015
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When even the nature of change is changing, you need a flexible process and a paradoxical mind.
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How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More

A historical chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based, fee-for-service medicine.
May 19, 2015
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A historical chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based, fee-for-service medicine.
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Seven Levers Pushing Health Care to the Tipping Point

What are the levers that are getting health care moving as it never has before? Thinking about how we can unite to support these drivers of change constitutes a new kind of industry handbook.
March 24, 2015
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What are the levers that are getting health care moving as it never has before? Thinking about how we can unite to support these drivers of change constitutes a new kind of industry handbook.
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It's Time to Rebuild Health Care's Business Model

There are no winners in the fee-for-service game.
January 20, 2015
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There are no winners in the fee-for-service game.
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Why Your Hospital Should Ditch Its IT System

Complaints about poorly performing systems are valid. Make sure your IT improves patient care rather than worsens it.
November 20, 2014
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Complaints about poorly performing systems are valid. Make sure your IT improves patient care rather than worsens it.
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Survivable Health Care

It's not just the financial climate that's changing. Our weather is changing, and hospitals need to be ready for that along with other threats.
September 23, 2014
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It's not just the financial climate that's changing. Our weather is changing, and hospitals need to be ready for that along with other threats.
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Half the Cost. Half the Jobs?

Those who make money off procedures will lose in the Next Health Care; those who create health will win.
July 22, 2014
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Those who make money off procedures will lose in the Next Health Care; those who create health will win.
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Will Tech Revolutionize Health Care This Time?

New gadgets will lower costs only if they bring value to patients.
May 27, 2014
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New gadgets will lower costs only if they bring value to patients.
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Strategies for Doing More with Less

If you don't adapt your business plan to the New Health Care, your organization will founder.
March 25, 2014
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If you don't adapt your business plan to the New Health Care, your organization will founder.
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What about the Poor?

Hospitals need to overhaul their processes so they can help the un- and underinsured stay healthy.
January 28, 2014
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Hospitals need to overhaul their processes so they can help the un- and underinsured stay healthy.
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Capital Planning in the Next Health Care

The new hospital you're planning may quickly become obsolete. It's time to rethink the need for hospital care.
September 24, 2013
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The new hospital you're planning may quickly become obsolete. It's time to rethink the need for hospital care.
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The Missing Ts: Four Key Dimensions of Strategy

If you don't have a structured way of driving your choices through the four Ts — transparency, targeting, trust and trim — you're headed for T as in trouble.
July 23, 2013
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If you don't have a structured way of driving your choices through the four Ts — transparency, targeting, trust and trim — you're headed for T as in trouble.
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How to Fail at the Next Health Care

The Next Health Care calls for different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many critical strategic and tactical mistakes is your system making?
May 28, 2013
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The Next Health Care calls for different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many critical strategic and tactical mistakes is your system making?
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The Ghost of Steve Jobs and Your Bottom Line

The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of your institution — and your balance sheet.
March 19, 2013
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The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of your institution — and your balance sheet.
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Divided Faces of Change

Some turn this way, some turn that. Which way is smartest? Which way works best in the short term, which in the long run?
February 14, 2013
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Some turn this way, some turn that. Which way is smartest? Which way works best in the short term, which in the long run?
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